Field House

Field House is a house, now a nursing home, dating from the mid-18th century. It was altered and extended around 1921 by Forbes and Tait for E Vaughan, with further changes in the late 20th century. The house is constructed of finely jointed red brick with ashlar dressings, and has a hipped, plain tiled roof hidden behind a parapet, topped with corner urn finials. There are large brick ridge and rear stacks. The three-storey façade features a moulded eaves cornice. The main front has three bays with giant end pilasters on pedestals, topped by an inset pediment on consoles above the central bay. The outer bays were given canted bay windows to the ground and first floors around 1921, with panelled parapets. These bays feature flat-headed windows with moulded keyblocks; the ground floor windows have twenty panes, while the first floor windows have sixteen panes. The second floor’s outer bays have Venetian windows. The central bay has twelve-pane sash windows on both the first and second floors. A circa 1921 ashlar porch with an open pediment on Ionic columns fronts the central entrance. The door has a moulded architrave, keyblock, double doors, and a traceried fanlight.

The east garden front mirrors the main façade, again with giant end pilasters on pedestals and an inset pediment to the central bay. Ground floor windows here are tripartite sashes with moulded cornices, while the first and second floors feature Venetian windows throughout; the first bay's windows are blind, and their glazing bars have been painted.

Internally, the original layout has been altered in 1921 and in the late 20th century. The main rooms on the ground floor retain original ceiling mouldings and some ornately detailed fireplaces. Additional spaces include a large ballroom wing to the rear west and a small, single-storey addition to the west of the main south entrance. The latter has clasping corner pilasters, an entablature, and pairs of Doric columns flanking a pair of eighteen-pane sashes, a pattern repeated on the west side, but with only a single central window present there.